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In 1946 Ohio, Eleanor and Silas Vance shared a love as vibrant as the spring daffodils, dreaming of a life together in their small town of Buckeye. Silas, a brilliant mechanic, promised to fix anything, but when the devastating polio epidemic strikes, leaving him confined to the relentless hiss of an iron lung, Eleanor faces an impossible choice. To secure his lifelong care, she strikes a secret bargain with the powerful local factory, trading her silence about their toxic dumping for Silas's survival. Decades of unspoken guilt and profound sacrifice warp their once-pure love into a fragile...

There’s a little wild west amusement park in California’s high desert. Old Madelyn Ghost Town attracts tourists every weekend. There are all sorts of rides and attractions peppered among the historic buildings. Here, you can take a ride through the Haunted Mine, have an old-fashioned chicken dinner, or watch a Wild West show.... And if you camp out, you just might see a UFO or two.

Since 1887, Cliffhouse Lodge has been famous for its luxurious accommodations, fine dining...and its ghosts. Overlooking Blue Lady Lake, nestled among tall pines, Cliffhouse has just been renovated by its owners, Teddy and Adam Bellamy, and their daughter, Sara. Cliffhouse has not always been a place of rest and respite, though. Over the years, it has served many vices, from rum-running to prostitution.

Come along into the gas-lit days of long-ago, when Queen Victoria ruled an age named in her honour, and dare to peer into the dark heart of the underworld empire of Professor James Moriarty, a foe whom Sherlock Holmes begrudgingly dubbed “the Napoleon of Crime.” Set across the season of winter—matching the cold soul of Holmes’ greatest foe—witness a daring plot hatched in the brilliant but long-corrupted mind of Professor Moriarty grow to fruition amid the labour of many months in his unseen world of criminal enterprises. Set in London in 1886, this short story diverges from the ...

It hasn't even been a year since I took down LuxCorp and helped pioneer a bold new model for Elseworlder integration. How did I do it? Why, with an old country Bed & Breakfast Inn and a bevy of beautiful women by my side. But things aren't all roses and daffodils just yet. In fact, Earth has just blipped onto the radar of the ancient sphinxes—powerful beings who will judge if our world is fit to keep our Elseworlders portals. The Arbiter has deemed a series of trials we need to pass in order to prove our worth.

Written as a remembrance during the three years in which a grieving Watson believes his friend Sherlock Holmes has died battling Professor Moriarty at the Reichenbach Falls, this case presents a mysterious figure who crossed paths with the great detective in an adversarial capacity, and whom Watson believes can only remain a puzzle, ill-explained even by the passing of some five years: a beguiling and enigmatic sensualist named Dorian Gray. Acting on behalf of a young woman whose experiences with Dorian Gray have left her with deep emotional wounds, Holmes finds himself caught up in a ...

Bath Bombs & Balneotherapy Secrets isn’t just another DIY recipe book—it’s your personal wellness blueprint for turning an ordinary bath into a deeply therapeutic ritual. If you’ve ever longed for radiant skin, deeper relaxation, or a way to naturally ease stress and tension without expensive spa visits, you’re about to discover a life-changing approach. In this immersive audiobook, certified wellness educator Isabella M. Thorne combines ancient wisdom with modern science to show you how bath bombs and balneotherapy can restore your body and calm your mind—right from the comfort of your home.

Psychologist Will Banning knows how to help his patients, but now his office is overrun. Suddenly, half the town wants his help. One patient is being given very bad advice by a hard-headed part of his anatomy that’s never spoken before. Another man is wearing tin foil hats to keep strange voices at bay, and Will’s receptionist is seeing a pair of bloody ghosts floating around in his living room.

Secretly raised as a boy in her father's caravan and schooled in languages and the fine art of negotiation, Adira rejects the looming changes of womanhood that threaten her nomadic life and independence. With the arrival of two mysterious Northmen, rumored to be holy men, Adira's world unravels. She loses everything she values most, including the "Angel" who has awakened her desires.

Enter the fog-cloaked past, as Sherlock Holmes undertakes his first case since recovering from an attempt on his life that left him wounded in body and spirit, traveling to the westernmost reaches of Suffolk, where a client from a previous mystery, a retired military man named Colonel Morley, has pleaded for aid in finding his young grandson, who went missing from his bed sometime in the night. Thus do Holmes and Watson venture to a secluded country estate with a long history of hauntings, which members of the staff claim are manifesting once more, centering around the infamous spirit of an...

Tully thinks he’s ready for anything, but he soon learns that when it comes to weird, Eternity has nothing on Fort Charles. He meets the Old Salts, a closed-mouthed league of seamen who are mightily worried about something called the Sailor’s Curse. The group is led by grumpy physician Lazarus Clay and lighthouse keeper Amos Franklin, who talks to seagulls. The old men are favorites among a bevy of drop-dead beauties who the Salts swear aren't really mermaids.

Calypso Violante needs some help the damned shifting has gotten out of hand. Marcus brings in a shifter to help train her in the fine art of shifting at will while Marcus piles another quest on her. Retrieve a special crown. A what? That’s right. Some sort of crown. Now she has to sneak into the lair of a super-vampire? How does one even begin to do that? Maybe while dressed in a sexy ballgown that has secret compartments for her blades? Maybe. Until she gets busted that is. Then when the proverbial sh— Well, you know, when it hits the fan, she’s got to battle her way out of a vampire...

At last these events from 1896 can stand released to the reading public in the 2020s, as Dr. John H. Watson’s account of a case he deemed “too violent and disturbing” to be published in his own lifetime finally appears before the world. In the tellingly entitled The Body in the Safe, Sherlock Holmes takes on an investigation which has its beginnings in a seemingly mundane theft at a commercial archive in north London, where all manner of documents have long been securely stored—until now. As first one cold-blooded murder and then others begin to surface, all connected to the ...

Come along as two legends of the Victorian era meet, in The Adventure of the Artful Dodger! As newlywed-to-be Dr. John Watson counts down the remaining fortnight until his wedding to Miss Mary Morstan, Baker Street plays host to a man Holmes admiringly dubs “criminal royalty,” the one-time Artful Dodger, himself. Now well-beyond his long-ago past as a master pickpocket, and known simply as Jack Dawkins, the Dodger comes bearing a warning that a new danger has arisen to the youth of the East End, as the most insidious leader of a gang of child thieves since Fagin himself has taken to ...

What if all the world's faiths were whispering the same simple truth? For ten years, the author has been in direct conversation with a singular presence that invites us to call it Lewis—a bodiless, genderless consciousness riding an invisible network of tiny particles spanning the universe. Lewis isn't the all-powerful God of traditional religion. He's a vast presence who woke up eons ago. Lewis delights in growing company and craves connection. His only wish? For as many of us as possible to join him in an afterlife that's warmer, deeper, and fuller the more who arrive. The surprising ...

Curvy Maia's got a secret and she goes to extraordinary lengths to keep it. Even if those lengths include stripping for men in a seedy club in Rome. Sexy, silent black panther shifter Franco could spell devastation or be the answer to a prayer. But he's got the cash to pay for infinite private dances...

Sophie Davies is tired of dating duds. So when the 'LifePreview' app promises to find her perfect soulmate through advanced AI, she dives in. The result? Sim-Max: witty, charming, artistic, and everything she’s ever dreamed of. Their simulated connection is instant, flawless, and deeply romantic. Convinced destiny has delivered, Sophie pays a hefty fee to meet the 'real' Max Thorne. But Real Max is nothing like his digital counterpart. He’s disheveled, cynical, obsessed with quantum physics, and visibly annoyed by her presence. As Sophie tries to subtly nudge him towards his simulated ...

A mage and a bodyguard want to open a cosy bookshop. They will discover a world of adventure . . . Brimming with magic, sapphic romance and plenty of tea, this is a heart-warming journey for fans of Travis Baldree's Legends & Lattes and TJ Klune. Reyna and Kianthe dream of opening a friendly...

A three AM knock at the door of 221B Baker Street, soon sends Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson out into the blanketing fog of a cold London night, where they are led by Inspector McPherson of Scotland Yard to an empty building, where four bodies, each the victim of a different manner of foul play, lie discarded like so much refuse. Amid the room the clues Holmes uncovers are strange, even contradictory, and seem to lead to more questions than answers, as he finds himself set about solving a mystery that taxes even the considerable powers of his brain, and leads to a conclusion as horrifying ...

He was born into violence. Raised in silence. Sharpened into something the world should fear. Ronan doesn’t remember what it feels like to be a child. Not really. In his world, innocence doesn’t last—it’s carved out and replaced with something colder. Deadlier. Under the watchful eye of a man who sees potential in the broken, Ronan learns that survival is earned in blood. But in the shadows of training and secrets, there are moments of light. Moments that make him question the monster he’s becoming. Until the darkness reminds him: he wasn’t made to be whole. He was made to be a ...